Mar 23 2007
Victoria Beckham, Who Has Never Read a Book, to Start a Book Club
Now, don’t get me wrong. I am not a hater of Victoria Beckham. I have three pairs of Rock n Republic Beckham jeans which I love. They are very comfortable. But a book club started by a woman who bragged to the Spanish press while promoting her autobiography that she has never read a book her entire life, including her own, sounds a bit suspicious. Do we even know that she can read let alone engage in a discussion about an entire novel.
I’m all for stars using their fame to promote literature, like Jon Stewart on the Daily Show, but when he recommends a book, I actually believe that he has read it. She did tell the press that she likes fashion magazines so perhaps Margaret & Lizz Weiss’ name brand novel would be right up her alley. Heck, maybe she’ll single-handedly bring chick lit back into vogue.
Via The Superficial.
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Mar 23, 2007 @ 21:40:14
When I heard this little tidbit I just about curled up and died. I’m all for someone converting non-readers over to the joy of the book, but this is wrong on so many different levels. In fact, I think whomever she chooses for her club to read is doomed as an author.
Mar 23, 2007 @ 22:55:12
I think I read somewhere that she claims to have misquoted. Not an impossibility since she doesn’t speak Spanish. If I find a link, I’ll post it.
Mar 24, 2007 @ 03:48:13
A woman who bragged to never reading a book….now she wants to start her own book club? Pleazzzzzzzzzzzze. Give me strength.
Mar 24, 2007 @ 09:48:16
Are you sure it’s a campaign to promote literature and not literacy? One of those “if I can learn so can you” type of things? And why *should* she be daunted in pursuing a new career as an intellectual role model? Remember when the current president bragged to graduating Yale students that he had been a C student at Yale? Maybe we’re adopting a new meaning for the term “middle class,” since the old one seems to be disappearing so rapidly.